Swope v. Lawton

WILBUR, Circuit Judge.

The respondent was committed to the United States Penitentiary on McNeil Island under sentence of five years on each of two counts of an indictment upon which he had been convicted in the District Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota. The sentence was imposed because of a violation of probation. The sentence on its face provided that it should begin to run from the 28th day of March, 1929. The commitment was issued on April 8, 1932, and the prisoner began to serve his term at McNeil Island on May 17, 1932. He contends that his sentence, rightly…